Manipulating the Sacred by Mikelle S Omari-Tukara

Manipulating the Sacred by Mikelle S Omari-Tukara

At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara contributes strikingly rich insights as a participant/observer in the African-based religions of Brazil. She focuses on the symbolism and function of ritual objects and costumes used in the Brazilian candomble (miniature ""African"" environments or temples) of the Bahia region, which combine Yoruba, Bantu/Angola, Caboclo, Roman Catholic, and/or Kardecist/Spiritist elements. An initiate herself with more than twenty years of study, the author is considered an insider, and has witnessed how practitioners manipulate the ""sacred"" to encode, in art and ritual, vital knowledge about meaning, values, epistemologies, and history. She demonstrates how this manipulation provides Brazilian descendents of slaves with a sense of agency - with a link to their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture. Manipulating the Sacred will be of value to students of art history, religion, anthropology, African American studies, and Latin American studies, and to the growing English-speaking community of initiates of African-based religions.

Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara is an associate professor in the department of art at the University of Arizona.

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ISBN 13	9780814328521
ISBN 10	0814328520
Titre	Manipulating the Sacred
Auteur	Mikelle S Omari-Tukara
Série	African American Life Series
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Wayne State University Press
Année de publication	2005-10-31
Nombre de pages	212
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